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eellent historical works of Dr. S. P. Hildreth, “Pioneer History’’ and “Lives
of the Early Settlers of Ohio.’’ Some facts were obtained from the “History
of Washington County, Ohio,’? some from the “History of Danvers, Massa-
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[The Founders of Ohio lauded from their boat, the Mayflower, at Marietta, April
7, 1788, and established the first English settlement in the North-western Territory.
Oyo was the Indian name of the Ohio.]
The footsteps of a hundred years
Have echoed, since o'er Braddock’s Road,
Bold Putnam and the Pioneers .
led History the way they strode.
On wild Monongahela’s stream
They launched the Mayilower of the West,
A perfect State their civic dream,
A new New World their pilgrim quest.
When April robed the Buckeye trees
Muskingum’s bosky shore they trod;
They pitched their tent, and to the breeze
Flung freedom’s star-flag, thanking God.
As glides the Oyo’s solemn flood
Their generation fleeted on;
Our veins are thrilling with their blood,
But they, the Pioneers, are gone.
Though storied tombs may not enshrine
The dust of our illustrious sires,
Behold, where monumental shine
. Proud Marietta’s votive spires.
Ohio carves and consecrates
In her own heart their every name;
The Founders of majestic States—
Their epitaph—immortal fame. .
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Corey, Ebenezer,
Cushing, Samuel,
Cutler, Jervis,
Danton, Israel,
Davis, Danie},
Davis, Jonas,
Devol, Allen,
Devol, Gilbert, Jr.,
Devol, Jonathan,
Dodge, Isaac,
Dodge, Oliver,
Felshaw, Samuel,
Flint, Hezekiah,
Flint, Hezekiah, Jr.,
Foster, Peregrine, .
Gardner, John,
Gray, William,
Griswold, Benjamin,
- Kirtland, Elizur,
Learned, Theophilus,
Lincoln, Joseph,
Martin, Simeon,
Mason, William,
Mathews, John,
Maxon, Henry,’
Meigs, Return Jonathan,
Miller, William,
Moulton, Edmund,
Moulton, William,
Munro, Josiah,
Porter, Amos,
Putnam, Allen,
Putnam, Jethro,
Putnam, Rufus,
Shaw, Benjamin,
Sproat, Earl,
Sproat, Ebenezer
Tupper, Anselm,
Wallis, David,
Wells, Joseph,
White, [affield,
White, Josiah,
White, Peletiah,
Whitridge, Josiah,
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A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF THE FOUNDERS
OF OHIO.
- A FLEET of boats arrived at the mouth of the Muskingum
April 7, 1788, “consisting of the Union Galley, of forty-
five tons burden, designed to pass and repass between this
(Muskingum) and Buffalo, or Short Creek, to bring down
settlers; the Adelphi ferry boat, burden three tons, for the
use of the settlers at the Post; and three log canoes of
different sizes.”* The fleet was under the command of
General Rufus Putnam, and conveyed to this point the
_ brave and energetic band of pioneers, forty-eight in num-
ber, whose mission it was tu plant a Christian civilization
in the midst of a savage wilderness, where they expected
to make their homes. The directors of the Ohio Com-
pany, under whose auspices they came out, had pur-
chased of Congress a million and a-half acres of land, and
proposed to begin the occupancy of their territory by plant-
ing a city at the mouth of the Muskingum. To effect this,
purpose a body of picked men was engaged. The first
‘detachment of these left Danvers, Massachusetts, Decem-
ber 3, 1787; the second went from Hartford, Connecticut,
January 1,1788. They were to meet at Sumrell’s ferry,
-.on the Youghiogheny river, and then proceed by water to
their destination.
Many of these first adventurers were share-holders in
the Ohio Company, and wisely desired to see the country
before removing with their families into a region so far in
advance of population, and where danger might well be
apprehended. Great care was taken to admit none but
respectable characters, who would make valuable members
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f the community about to be established. In a memo-
randum book of Dr. Manasseh Cutler, one of the directors
- of the Ohio Company, is a list of thirty-seven men engaged
“to go into the Ohio Country, if wanted.” Twenty of
those who came were selected from this list; among them,
three carpenters and two blacksmiths, a class of men best
calculated to build up the projected city, and without whom
no civilized community could long exist. Dr. Cutler writes
to Major Sargent, on September 29, 1787: “ More than one
hundred and fifty have applied to me to go this antumn on
the terms we agreed on at the last meeting. They have
almost refused to take a denial. ‘he men I have engaged
are equal to any I would have chosen.”
The winter of 1787-8 was one of uncommon severity,
and the snow on the mountains they were obliged to
traverse was of such unusual depth that the.men who
left Danvers in. charge of Major Haffield White had to
abandon their wagons and construct sledges to transport
their tools and baggage over the Alleghanies, and it was
near the last of January, after a most fatiguing march,
that they arrived at Sumrell’s ferry. The party from
Hartford, conducted by Colonel Ebenezer Sproat, found
the mountain roads incumbered by a recent heavy fall of
snow, three feet deep. They also left their wagons, and
with their horses in single file, attached to stout sleds, pre-
ceded by the men on foot to break a track for the teams,
passed the mountain ranges after two weeks of inces-
sant labor and a march which for hardy endurance and
heroic fortitude has not been often equaled. They reached
‘the Youghiogheny on the 14th of February. General Put-
nam found of the tirst party a number ill with small-pox, and
the saw-mills frozen up. It was six weeks before the flotilla
was completed that was to carry them to the Muskingum.
Who were these men who made their way across the
mountains through the pathless snow in midwinter, and
found themselves, without a roof to shelter them, that
April morning one hundred years ago on the spot where
Marietta now stands? Are not their very names forgotten
by the present generation? And yet the records of the
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past give evidence that many of them are worthy of being
heldin lasting remembrance. The following items, gleaned
from authentic sources, give au epitome of the personal
history of the forty-eight as far as a careful investigation
of historical records at hand will aftord. Doubtless other
‘interesting facts may be added.
General Rufus Putnam, the leader of this band of pioneers,
was appointed by the directors of the Ohio Company No-
vember 23, 1787, “Superintendent of all the business re-
lating to the settlement of their lands in the Territory
North-west of the Ohio.” His military record is thus
given by the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati, of
which he was a member. ‘ Rufus Putnam. Born Sutton,
Massachusetts, April 9, 1738; died Marietta, Ohio, May 4,
1824; a mill-wright; a private soldier in the campaigns
1757-60, in Canada; then settled in New Braintree, Massa-
chusetts; Lieutenant-Colonel in Brewer’s Regiment May,
1775; employed as an engineer in constructing the siege
works around Boston; chief engineer of the defenses of
New York in 1776; Colonel August 5, 1776, and com-
manded the 5th Regiment until commissioned Brigadier-
General January 7, 1783; distinguished himself at Sara-
toga; aide to General Lincoln in quelling Shay’s rebellion ;
. one of the founders of Marietta, Ohio, in 1788; appointed
a judge in the North-western Territory, 1789; re-appointed
Brigadier-General May 4, 1792; United States Surveyor-
General 1793-1803 ; Member of Ohio Constitutional Con-
vention, 1802.” Iis military record, his services asa Judge.
and Surveyor-Gencral of the United States, his bravery,
good judgment, and unquestioned integrity are too well
known to require comment. He was a director of the
Ohio Compauy,in which he owned tive shares of land. He
laid the foundations at Marietta, where he spent the re-
mainder of his life honored and beloved. In his eighty-
seventh year he was called to his reward, aud his remains
were reverently laid to rest in the Mound Cemetery. He
left numerous and worthy descendants. The Life of
Rufus Putnam, prepared by Mary Cone was_ published
1886.
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8 The Memory of the Founders of Ohio.
Major Haffield White was appointed by the directors of
the Ohio Company commissary and conductor of the first
party of pioneers who left Danvers, December 3, 1787, and
shared with them the labor and suffering attending the
long march over the snow-clad mountains of Pennsylvania.
~He was a soldier of the revolution, and ‘‘ served as a Lieu-
tenant in Hutchinson’s Regiment; and as Captain in Put-
nam’s (5th) Regiment, and rendered distinguished services
at the battle of Lexington, at the crossing of the Dela-
ware, at Trenton, Hubbardton, and at Saratoga,’ and was
made a Major at the close of the war. He was a member
of the Society of the Cincinnati. Major White owned
three shares in the Ohio Company. He was robust, active,
and prompt in the execution of business. During the first
year after his arrival at Marietta he continued to act as
steward for the company, and also built for himself a
house in Campus Martius. The next year, with Colonel
Robert Oliver and Captain John Dodge, he erected mills
on Wolf Creek, which were the first ever built in Ohio.
On the Grenkiae out of the Indian war, these mills being
in avery exposed situation, were abandoned, the owners
taking refuge at Marietta. On the return of peace he set-
tled on land he owned near the mills. These also eventu-
ally became his property. Major White was a useful eiti-
zen noted for his industry and integrixy. He died Decem-
ber 13, 1817.
Peletiah White, son of Major Hatfield White, came to
Marietta April 7, 1788. He married Susan Wells, the sis-
ter of Joseph Wells, a fellow-pioneer. During the latter
part of the Indian war Mr. White served as a ranger or
spy. He inherited his father’s estate, was an elder in the
Presbyterian church, and a most estimable, christian man.
Joseph Wells was one of the forty-eight. His father,
James Wells, with a large family, soon joined him at
Marietta, where the parents and a sister died of smali-pox.
The family were in Campus Martius during the war. They
all married respectably, and remained in the country.
Captain Ezekiel Cooper, trom Danvers, Massachusetts, was
a share-holder in the Ohio Company, and came ou in
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The Memory of the Founders of Ohio. @9
Major White’s party. “ He was an Ensign in Hutchin-
son’s regiment at the siege of, Boston; Lieutenant in Put-
nam’s (5th) regiment, 1777-82; commissioned Captain in
Sproat’s (2d) regiment, January 7, 1783; removed to Ohio
in 1788; living in Warrentown, Ohio, in 1807.” Captain
Cooper was in command of the galley sent up the Ohio
river to bring to Marietta the families who arrived at that
place August 19,1788. He was a member of the Society
of the Cincinnati.
Josiah Whitridge, a carpenter, was also from Danvers.
He served under Captain Samuel Flint at the battle of
Lexington, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary war.
He was one of the forty-eight.
Amos Porter, born in Danvers, February 20, 1769, was
one of those who landed at Marietta on the 7th of April,
1788. His name is found on the list of share-holders of
the Ohio Company. After two years residence in the Ter-
ritory, he returned on foot to his eastern home, and in 1795
came back with hts father’s family. He married Sabra
Tolman, and his was the first family that settled in Salem
township, where he became a prosperous farmer. Mr. Por-
ter was a man of much energy, benevolence, and integrity.
He was for many years anelderin the Presbyterian church.
The last survivor of the pioneer band, he died November
28, 1861, aged ninety-two years.
Allen Putnam, from Danvers, Massachusetts, was also
one of the pioneer party, and a share-holder in the Ohio
Company. He married Auna Porter, the sister of his
friend Amos Porter. He owned a farm near Stanleyville,
in Fearing township, where he settled about 1797. Mr.
Putnam was a ship-carpenter by trade, and met his death
by falling through a hatchway, while at work at Ma-
rietta.
Captain Jethro Putnam, of Danvers, had performed
meritorious services in the Revolutionary army, and en-
dured the hardships and losses incident to the war, and
now turned his attention to the new west. He owned a
share in the Ohio Company, and came on with the tirst
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party of emigrants. “Captain Putnam and ‘Captain f
William Gray furnished a pair of oxen and two horses for
the use of the Company, for which service they were to be
paid in lands, if agreeable to the Directors, or the teams
to be appraised and purchased.” When that party started,
Captain Putnam had charge of the wagons and men. He
is mentioned as one of the grand jurors at the court heid
at Marietta, September 9, 1788, after which we have been
unable to trace him.
Captain William Gray was born in Lynn, esa...
March 26,1761. He entered the army as a private paler
at the age of seventeen years, and was promoted for good
conduct. At the storming of Stony Point, he was one of
the first to scale the walls of that fortress. He was the
nephew of William Gray, one of the richest merchants in
Boston, for whom he was named, who always manifested a
great interest in his success in life. He married Miss
Mary Diamond, of Salem, Massachusetts, and in the au-
tumn of 1787, he joined the Ohio Company and came west
with the first pioneer band that left New England, having
one of the famous wagons labeled “ For Ohio,” in his par-
ticular charge. His family did not come to Marietta until
1790, when he established himself at Waterford.
At the beginning of the Indian war, he was chosen com-
mander of Fort Frye, which had been erected for the se-
curity of the inhabitants of that place, and into which they
were then compelled to take refuge. The situation was
peculiarly exposed, as the savage war parties could descend
the Muskingum, silently and swiftly, in their light canoes,
and thus elude the rangers who daily patrolled the woods
to discover signs of their presence. This remote out-post
was repeatedly visited by the enemy, horses were stolen,
and cattle wantonly slaughtered, and on one occasion, the
fort was attacked with great vigor, but the assailants were
repulsed, and only one of the inmates, Wilbur Sprague,
was wounded, who recovered after a long and painful ill-
ness. The members of the garrison had many narrow es-
capes, and one of their number, Daniel Convers, was taken
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The Memory of the Founders of Ohio. 11
prisoner and carried into captivity. It was in a great
measure due to the prudence and vigilauce of Captain Gray
that this post suffered no greater luss during the war. On
‘the return of peace, he settled on a farm near the town of
Beverly, where he reared a large and respectable family,
and died there in 1812.
Another of Major Haffield White’s party, was John Gard-
ner, a young man from Marblehead, who was the son of a sea
captain, and had been bred a sailor. He came west, as did
many others, in search of fortune and adventure. In the
spring of 1789, he joined the Waterford association and
drew his lot on the fertile peninsula, where Major Dean
Tyler and Jervis Cutler’s lots were located. He and Jer-
vis Cutler agreed to assist each other in clearing their land,
and were making good progress when one day, while the
latter was absent at Marietta, Gardner was seized by a
party of Shawnees, who took his gun, and hurried him
into the woods, where at some distance their horses were
concealed. They were all mounted but one, who walked
and led the prisoner by a rope around his neck; in this
they took turns. At the close of the first day they gave
him a little jerked meat, and having carefully secured nim
by making him lie upon a stout sapling which they bent
down and fastened to the ground, with his hands tied be-
hind him with leather thongs, while another cord bound
him to the trunk, his captors laid down to sleep. He made
no attempt that night to escape, but after the next day’s
weary march, finding themselves beyond the fear of pur-
suit, they encamped early, shot a bear and a deer, built a
fire, roasted the flesh with which they regaled themselves,
and gave him a plentiful repast. They endeavored to per-
suade him to remain quietly with them, painted his face
and cut off part of his hair, and promised to make him a
good Shawnee, but were not unmindful of the necessity of
securing him as before. That night the rain fell gently and
moistened and made more pliable the thongs with which he
was bound, and he determined, if possible, to eseape. By
cautious and long continued eftort, he succeeded in releas-
ing himself, without one of the bells which they had fast-
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ened to the limbs of the sapling sounding the alarm. Tak-
ing his gun from the side of one of the Indians sleeping
near him, he stepped out into the dark forests and walked
till morning in the direction of home, then taking an east-
erly course, he came to a branch of Wolf Creel, which he
followed down to the mills, where he was joyfully wel-
comed, as his four days’ absence had occasioned serious
alarm for his safety. Tbe next morning, he and Cutler,
who had returned the sane evening from Marietta, renewed
their woodland labors with renewed spirits. Mr. Gard-
ner, like most sailors, when land-bound, longed for the
sea; he went back to Marblehead, and was soon in his
father’s ship afloat on the ocean, doubtless preferring to en-
counter the ills he knew, than those he knew not of.
Jervis Cutler was the son of Dr. Cutler, one of the Di-
rectors of the Ohio Company. Dr. Cutler’s published
journal says, “ Monday, December 83,1787. This morning
a part of the men going to Ohio met here (at his house in
Ipswich Hamlet), two hours before day. 1 went on with
them to Danvers. The whole joined at Major White’s.
Twenty men employed by the Company, and four or five
on their own expense, marched at eleven o’clock. This
party is commanded by Major White. Captain (Jethro)
Putnam took the immediate charge of the men, wagons,
etc. Jervis went off in good spirits.” The Rev. G. W.
Kelly, who for sixteen years filled the pulpit at Hamiiton,
formerly Ipswich Hamlet, in a recent letter, says: “An es-
teemed lady, Mrs. P. Roberts, often informed me about the
company which left Hamilton an hundred years ago to
make a settlement in the wilderness west of the Ohio river.
A wagon appeared in the highway in front of Dr. Cut-
ler’s house, covered with black canvas, but it had on both
sides of it painted in white letters, ‘For Ohio.’ <As the
home of Mrs. R. was directly opposite that of Dr. Cut-
ler, she could see all that took place. The wagon was
drawn by oxen, a team most likely to be useful when snow
fell on the way.” Temple Cutler stated his recollections
thus: “ The little band of pioneers assembled at Dr. Cut-
ler’s house, and there took an early breakfast. About the
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dawn of day, they paraded in front of the house, and after
a short address from him, the men being armed, three vol-
leys were fired, and the party went forward cheered
heartily by the by-standers. Dr. Cutler accompanied them
to Danvers.” |
Jervis Cutler had, at the age of sixteen, made a voyage
to France, and now, at nineteen, he joined this company of
adventurers, and was the first of the forty-eight who leaped
on shore at the mouth of the Muskingum, April 7, 1788.
He was one of the associates who begun the settlement
at Waterford, in the spring of 1789, and remained in the
west until 1790, when he returned: to New England and
married Miss Philadelphia Cargill; in 1802 he settled at
Bainbridge, Ohio, as a fur-trader. He was chosen Major
of Colonel McArthur’s Ohio regiment in 1806, and en-
listed a company for active service, of which he was ap-
pointed Captain. This company was ordered to New Or-
leans in the spring of 1809. Soon after his arrival there,
he was prostrated by yellow fever, and the United States
Senate having refused to confirm his appointment as Cap-
tain, because of a charge that he had made speeches at-
tacking the administration, he returned to New England.
In 1812 he published a book entitled “A Topographical
Description of the State of Ohio, Indiana Territory, and
Louisiana,” with a “ Concise Account of the Indian Tribes
West of the Mississippi.” In 1818, he again came west,
and settled as an engraver of plates for bank notes, in Nash-
ville, Tennessee. His first wife died in 1822. In 1824, he
married Mrs. Elizabeth Chandler, of Evansville, Indiana.
He died in Evansville, in 1844. His only son, now living,
is Dr. George A. Cutler, of Chicago.
Isaac Dodge was the representative in the pioneer band
of the large and respectable Dodge family who have for
many generations resided in Essex county, Massachusetts.
He came from Wenham, but of his fate, history has made
no record.
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the forty-eight, only this is known: he owned a share
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in the Ohio Company, and “ was to go into the country, if
wanted, on his own hook.”
Henry Maxon came to Marietta April 7, 1788, and went
to Waterford at its first settlement. He and his wife occu-
pied a block-house on the west side of the Muskingum,
which Major Dean Tyler had erected for the security of
the settlers while engaged in cultivating their land. It
was on the peninsula, one mile from Wolf Creek Mills.
Major Tyler, a brave, intelligent, and worthy man, re-
sided with the Maxons. When the Indian war burst upon
them, so unexpectedly, on the long to be remembered night
of January 2, 1791, when the settlement at Big Bottom.
was destroyed, they retired to Fort Frye, on the east bank
of the river. Mr. Maxon eventually settled in Fearing
township, and was an active and useful citizen.
William Moulton, of Newburyport, and his son, Hdmund
Moulton, were merabers of Major White’s party. Mr.
Moulton owned a share in the Ohio Company, and subse-
quently removed his family to Marietta. During the I[n-
dian war they dwelt in the garrison at the Point. When
Captain Joseph Rogers, a noted ranger, was killed in 1791,
aud the alarm-guns were fired, the scene at this garrison is
thus described by an eye witness, Col. Joseph Barker:
“The first person for admittance into the central block-
house was Colonel Sproat with a box vf papers, then came
some young men with their arms, then a woman with her
bed and children, then old Mr. William Moulton, aged
seventy, with his apron full of old goidsmith’s tools and
tobacco. Close at his heels came-his daughter Anna, with
the china tea-pot, cups and saucers. Lydia brought the
great Bible. But when all were in, their mother was
missing. Where was mother? She must be killed! No,
says Lydia,*mother said she would not leave the house
looking so; she would put things a little more to rights, and
then she would come. Directly mother came, bringing the
looking-glass, knives and forks.” Mr. Moulton died dur-
ing the war, in 1793. His son Edmund died in Marietta,
August 26, 1822.
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late in life, to Dr. Josiah Hart, a graduate of Yale College
in 1762. He was a surgeon in the Revolutionary army,
and came with his family to Marietta, in 1796. On the
formation of the Congregational Church here, he was
elected a deacon, and was an intelligent, Christian gentle-
man. Dr. Hart died in August, 1812, and his wife died a
few hours after, and they were bumed on the same day.
His descendants are numerous and respectable.
Lydia Moulton married, in 1802, Dr. William B. Leonard,
born in London, in 1787, and bred a surgeon, in which ca-
pacity he served in the British navy. Hecame to America
about 1797, and to Marietta in 1801, where he died in 1806.
He was very eccentric in dress and manners.
Jonas Davis, from Massachusetts, was an intelligent and
highly esteemed young man. Several of the forty-eight
were, at times, in great peril from the savage foe, but Mr.
Davis was the only one of the number who actually lost
his life. He was an inmate of Stone’s garrison in upper
Belpre, was engaged to be married to a daughter of Cap-
tain Isaac Barker, and had his wedding suit prepared,
when one morning in February, 1795, he was killed by
the Indians near the mouth of Crooked Creek, three miles
from the garrison. His death occasioned the deepest sor-
row. Four of his young friends, led by John James, one
of the bravest and most skillful of their number, pursued
the enemy for more than an hundred miles through the
forest, and wounded one of them, whose war-whoop brought
out more than a score of warriors encamped near the spot.
James and his party finding themselves so far out-num-
bered, were obliged to retreat. They were pursued by the
Indians and their dogs, but favored by the darkness of the
night, they eluded their pursuers and reached the garrison
in safety to the great relief of their friends.
Colonel Kbenezer Sproat. The Massachusetts Society of
the Cincinnati, of which he was a member, thus gives his
record: “ Born at Middleborough, Massachusetts, 1752 ;
died at Marietta, Ohio, February, 1805 ; Major in Cotton’s
regiment May, 1775, at the siege of Boston; in Francis’
regiment in 1776; Lieutenant-Colonel of the 12th regi-
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ment January 1, 1777; and September 29, 1778, Lieuten-
ant-Colonel commanding in Glover’s Brigade at Trenton,
Princeton, and Monmouth; Inspector of Brigade under
Steuben; emigrated to Ohio in 1788.” “When stationed
at Providence, in 1778, with Glover’s Brigade of four regi-
ments, he was said to be the tallest man in the Brigade,
being six feet and four inches high, with limbs formed in
nature’s most perfect model. In the duties of his station
he excelled as much as in size, being the most complete
disciplinarian in the J3rigade. His social habits, pleasant,
agreeable manners, and cheerful disposition, rendered him
a general favorite with the officers, as well as with the
private soldiers who always followed with alacrity where
he led.” He performed many valuable services, and shared
largely in the perils of the war. He married Catharine
Whipple, daughter of Commodore Abraham Whipple.
Congress appointed Colonel Sproat Surveyor for Rhode
Island on the seven ranges of townships west of the Ohio
river, which were to be placed in the market for sale, and
he was engaged in this duty during the autumn of 1786.
He was appointed a Surveyor for the Ohio Company, a
service for which his hardy frame and great resolution
eminently fitted him. He owned three shares in the Com-
pany, and conducted those of the forty-eight adventurers
who lett Hartford, Connecticut, on the Ist of January, 1788,
in their winter march across the Alleghanies. General
Putnam was obliged to go to New York on_ business for
the Ohio Company, but joined them on the way, and at
Sumrell’s Ferry took command of both this and Major
White’s party, who all came down and landed at the mouth
of the Muskingum, and pitched their tents in the woods,
April 7, 1788.
Colonel Sproat was the first sheriff of Washington
County, which at that time extended from the Ohio river
-to Lake Erie, and westward to the Scioto. He filled
this office with great dignity and propriety for fourteen
years, until the state government was formed. During the
Indian war he had control of the military affairs in the
county for the United States. He appoitted the rangers,
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or Indian spies, and enrolled a company of soldiers for the
defense of the colony. He was a liberal and active citi-
‘zen, and his memory was held in grateful remembrance
by atl who knew him. His daughter married the Hon.
Solomon Sibley, of Detroit, Michigan.
Jabez Barlow, one of the forty-eight who came with Put-
nam, and one of the associates that began the settlement at
Waterford, in 1789, was a brother of Joel Barlow, the
poet and diplomatist, who owned several shares in the Ohio
Company. ‘The Barlows were what is Known in Con-
necticut as ‘good stock;’ that is, they were respectable
land-holders, paid their tithes promptly, and gave no one
occasion to speak ill of them.” Jabez Barlow was un-
married, and Jived alone in a cabin on his clearing, a mile
below Fort Frye, where he declined to take refuge after
the Big Bottom massacre, because, he said, “as he had
never harmed the Indians, they would not injure him.” A
narrow escape, on the 11th of March, 1791, when ‘an as-
sault was made upon the Fort, led him to change his mind
and resort to it for safety during the war, after which he
returned to New England.
Peregrine Foster, EHsq., from Brookfield, Massachusetts,
one of the forty-eight, was born in 1749. He owned a share
in the Ohio Company, and was employed by them as a sur-
veyor. Previous to the Indian war he went East for his
family, but while on his way to Marietta he heard of the
outbreak, and took refuge with them in Morgantown, Vir-
ginia, until 1796, when he removed to Belpre, Ohio, and
established the first tavern and the first ferry across the
Ohio at that place. He was a judge of the Court of
Common Pleas prior to 1802, and died in 1804. A man of °
eminent worth, and a great loss to the community. |
Ebenezer Corey came with the first company. He was a
man of much enterprise and industry. It is recorded the
first season that, ‘a piece of bottom land on the bank of
the Ohio, belonging to Mr. Corey, had been harvested, and
measured one hundred and four bushels of corn to the
acre.” He was the architect of the bridge over Tyber
Creek, which was “twenty-five feet high, ninety feet long,
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and twenty-four feet wide, covered with hewn planks four
inches thick.” Colonel May writes, “It is called ‘ Corey’s
bridge,’ in honor of the master workman. There is not so
good a bridge, or any thing like it, betwixt it and Balti-
more.” Mr. Corey and his wife were in Campus Martius
during the war, but afterward went to Waterford.
Hezekiah Flint, of Reading, Massachusetts, was employed
by the Ohio Company as the chief carpenter. His son,
Hezekiah Flint, Jr., was “to go if room could be made for
him.” They both came in that pioneer company, but it is
uncertain if both remained. The name of one Hezekiah
Flint is given as being in Fort Harmar during the war.
He went to Cincinnati.
Earl Sproat, one of the first pioneer band, was a relative
of Colonel Ebenezer Sproat. He was a share-holder in the
Ohio Company and remained in the country as a settler.
He was one of the petitioners to the Territorial Legisla-
ture for an act of incorporation for the town of Marietta,
which was granted, and approved by Governor St. Clair
December 2, 1800, and Marietta was the first incorporated
town in the North-west Territory. He was a director of
the Marietta Bank, chartered February 10, 1808, of which
Gen. Rufus Putnam was President. He was a subscriber
to the fund for erecting the Muskingum Academy, and
held the position of major in the Ohic militia.
David Wallis, one of the original pioneers, was from
Ipswich, Massachusetts, and was a man of a respectable fam-
ily and character. <A letter writer says of him: “ David
Wallis told me that on reaching Marietta he was attacked
by small-pox, and he removed at once from the camp, and
made his bed beside a log in the woods where food was
brought to him until he was cured. He then concluded to
return to Massachusetts, and he and another man crossed
over the Ohio river and walked up to Pittsburg through a
wilderness, where hostile Indians used often to hunt. Mr.
Wallis then worked at a smelting furnace until he earned
money to buy food, while he made the journey on foot to
his old home.” Another writer states that he did not long
remain there, as the charms of a sister of one of his late
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comrades, who in the meantime had emigrated westward,
had made an impression upon his mind that he could not
forget; and so he again shouldered his rifle and a second
time visited Marietta, but only to be rejected; and he re-
turned the way he came, a wiser, if a sadder man. He
settled in Ipswich hamlet, and with his family about him,
would often, in his old age, tell of his long pedestrian tour
to Ohio in search of a wife.
Samuel Felshaw and Theophilus Learned were young men
from Killingly, Connecticut, who joined the company
“from a roving disposition and a desire to see the world.”
These were doubtless the “ two men from Muskingum, be-
longing to Killingly,” that Dr. Cutler met in the street of
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, July 31, 1788, when on his way
to Ohio, as mentioned in his published journal. They were
not share-holders, but were engaged to the Company for
six months from the Ist of January, 1788; and the time
being out, and their curiosity satisfied, they returned home.
Mr. Learned belonged to one of the best families in WKill-
ingly. Mr. Felshaw was the son of Captain John Felshaw,
“who kept a noted tavern in Killingly, and was long prom-
inent in town and public affairs,” and “ died leaving a large
landed estate to be divided among his children. The tav-
ern became the property of his son, Samuel Felshaw.”
Phineas Coburn, one of the first company of emigrants
to Ohio, was the eldest son of Major Asa Coburn, a gallant
officer of the Massachusetts line, who, with two brothers,
entered the army at the opening of the revolutionary war.
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major; his brothers both died on the battle-field. Major
Coburn owned three shares in the Ohio Company, and re-
moved with his family to Marietta August 19,1788, and
was a valuable acquisition to the settlement. Phineas, his
father, and family, joined the Waterford association, and
on the commencement of Indian hostilities were domiciled
in Fort Frye, where Major Coburn died during the war.
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house, and begun to clear their farms on the fertile alluvial
bottoms which border the Muskingum in Adams township.
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Phineas made his permanent home in Morgan County,
Ohio. The gallant General Dumont, of Indiana, an officer
in the Union Army, claimed descent through his mother
from Major Coburn.
- The ancestors of Captain Josiah Munro, with several
other emigrants, came from Scotland at a very early date
and bought a large tract of land in Lexington, Massachu-
setts, and settled there in company. They were from the
highlands of Scotland. At the breaking out of the revo-
lution Captain Munro, then recently married, was living
on a farm in Peterborough, New Hampshire. The battle
of Lexington was fought on the common in front of his
father’s door. Immediately after this battle he left his
farm and joined the forces of the Colonies, and continued
in the New Hampshire line during the war. He was at
the capture of Burgoyne, and the surrender of Cornwallis.
He was in 1783 one of the signers of the officer’s petition
to Congress for an appropriation of western lands in pay-
ment for their services. On the formation of the Ohio
Company he became a share-holder, and leaving his family
at Amherst, New Hampshire, he was one of the forty-eight
who first came to Marietta. Before the Indian war his
family came west, and during that calamitous period lived
in the garrison at the Point. Captain Munro was a talented
and useful man. He was the second post-master in Mari-
etta, succeedir'g Hon. R. J. Meigs in that oflice, and hold-
ing it from 1795 to 1801. He was also appointed a Judge
of the Court of the Quarter Sessions of the Peace in 1796.
His family settled in Muskingum County. His daughter
. married Colonel Daniel Convers, of Zanesville, Ohio. Cap-
tain Munro’s monument in Mound Cemetery, at Marietta,
bears this inscription: ‘Captain Josiah Munro; born at
Lexington, Massachusetts, February 12, 1745; died at Mari-
etta, August, 1801. He was an officer in the Revolution-
ary Army, and became the friend of Lafayette, who recog-
nized his services in the war by the gift of asword. He
was one of the original Ohio Company who landed at:
Marietta, April 7, 1788, and was appointed post-master at
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Marietta, 1794, which office he held at the time of his
death.”
Benjamin Shaw was another of the first party. He
served in a Danvers company of minute men, under Cap-
tain Israel Hutchinson, at the battle of Lexington, and after-
ward as a regular soldier in the Revolutionary Army. He
came from Hampton, New Hampshire, and at a later date
removed his family to the west. They were in Fort Frye
during the war, and afterward settled on the rich Round
Bottom. This farm next came into the possession of Boy!]-
ston Shaw, his son, who was one of the most successful
and enterprising farmers in this region. Sally Shaw, a
daughter of the pioneer, married Benjamin Dana, whose
highly cultivated farm of fourteen hundred acres was per-
haps the finest in the county. The lamented General Ben-
jamin D. Fearing, of the Union Army, and the Hon. James
W. Dawes, late governor of Nebraska, are among their de-
scendants.
Samuel Cushing, one of the forty-eight, came from New
Bedford, Massachusetts. He was the brother of Mrs. Ben-
jamin Shaw, and was related to the well known Sumner
and Cushing families of Massachusetts. He was a member
of the Waterford Association, and one of. the young men
who remained during the war to aid in the defense of the
settlers. He afterward married a daughter of Judge Gil-
bert Devol, and settled on a farm on Round Bottom, where
he died October 9, 1823. ‘ His was the first death in the
Mount Moriah Masonic Lodge; and the members, as a
token of regard, wore a biue ribbon about the left arm
from the time of his death to the next regular communi-
cation.” =
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on with General Putnam. He was a man in middle life,
and was of a very respectable family. He had rendered
useful and patriotic services during the Revolutionary War,
and had suffered severe losses. Je owned a share in the
Ohio Company, andscame to make a home for his family,
who after their arrival lived at Fort Frye until the savage
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soil of Adams township. ‘Captain Ditvis was a man of
wisdom and experience, and his counsels were held in high
esteem.”
Major Joseph cree came to Marietta, April 7, 1788
He was born in Massachusetts in 1760, and had served in
the Revolutionary army. While in garrison at Farmer’s
Castle, Belpre, he married Fanny, daughter of Capt. John
Leavens, from Killingly, Connecticut. After the war he
removed to Marietta, where he established himself in bus-
iness. ‘“ He at one time owned all the land on Ohio street,
between Post and Front, and several lots on Front. In
1807 he erected, on the corner of Front and Ohio streets,
what was then the finest building in town. It was origin-
ally a large, square brick house, with ornamental mantels
and stuccoed ceilings. The building was arranged both for
a dwelling and business house, but Major Lincoln died
about the time it was finished.” He was always known as
Major Lincoln, but we have not the date of his commis-
sion. In 1797, he subscribed twenty dollars toward build-
ing the Muskingum Academy. He soon became one of
-the most successful merchants in Marietta. ‘*‘ He was a
most excellent man.” Tradition says that his daughter,
Susan Lincoln, educated at the celebrated Moravian school
at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was one of the most attractive
and accomplished girls of her time. |
Captain William Mason was a native of Massachusetts ;
he belonged to the Forty-eight, and was one of the first to
land at the mouth of the Muskingum, April 7, 1788. He
married, March 14, 1790, Susanna, daughter of Major Asa
Coburn, and they were in Campus Martius during the war.
In the first organized militia at Marietta under Colonel
Sproat, Mr. Mason was an orderly sergeant; in 1797, Win-
throp Sargent, acting governor, commissioned him lieuten-
ant, and under a reorganization, Governor Arthur St. Clair
appointed William Mason, gentleman, a lieutenant in the
First regiment, 1801. When the new state government
went into operation, he received a Captain’s commission
from Governor Edward Tiffin. He settled about 1797, in
Adams RED and was prominent in the early commiu-
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nity. His fine farm was on the bottom and plain nearly
opposite Upper Lowell, on the Muskingum. Here he
lived with his family of twelve children, and died there
September, 26, 1815. Among his descendants was the late
Colonel William B. Mason, of Marietta, who entered the
Union army, as private, in 1861, and returned in 1864, Col-
onel of the 77th Ohio regiment.
Oliver Dodge, one of the original pioneer party, came from
Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. He owned a share in
the Ohio Company, and was, during the war, at Campus
Martius. He joined the colony in Adams, in the spring
of 1795, and in company with the Coburns, Davises, and
others, began to level the heavy forests which then covered
the land. He lived one year alone in a large, hollow sye-
amore tree. In 1800 he married Mrs. Nancy (Devol) Man-
chester. He left, at his death, a valuable farm to his
only son, Richard Hubbard Dodge. Oliver Dodge’s only
daughter, Mary Manchester, became the wife of the Hon.
Perley B. Johnson, M. D., of McConnellsville, who, in
1843-5, represented his district in Congress. |
Among that body of sterling men who were bold and
hardy evough to make the first settlement in the wilder-
ness where Ohio now stands, there was no more remark-
able or useful man than Captain Jonathan Devol. He was
born in Tiverton, Rhode Island, in the year 1756. His
biographer states that “ his whole education was embraced
in one year’s schooling,” but this was supplemented by his
father’s library of choice books, which he eagerly read.
When quite young he learned the trade of a ship carpenter,
and became noted for his skill in constructing boats of a
beautiful model, and famed for rapid sailing. One of these
took a purse of fifty guineas in a race between some gen-
tlemen amateurs of Newport and Providence. When the
revolutionary war commenced he entered the army before
he was twenty years old, and performed many daring,
heroic services, which are on record, and were of great
value. On the formation of the Ohio Company he became
one of the associates, and came with Colonel Sproat’s party
to Sumrell’s Ferry, where General Putuam expected to find
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the boats ready to descend the river. The first party, un-
der Major White, were to build the boats, but the mills
were frozen up, and lumber not to be easily procured. In
this juncture, Captain Devol’s services were of the utmost
importance; he surmounted the difficulties, and under his
direction the “ Union Galley,” or as it was later called, the
“ Mayflower,” was built and the adventurers committed
themselves to the current of the river and were conveyed
safely to their destination. Here his ingenuity, skill, and
industry, were invaluable to the new settlement.
Captain Devol was soon actively engaged in the con-
struction of Campus Martius, an imposing structure, de-
signed fora fortress and for dwellings. He erected a house
for himself in one of the curtains of the fort. It was forty
feet long, eighteen feet wide, and two stories high, and the
next winter it sheltered, not only his own family, who had
joined him, but, in all, seventy persons, old and young,
were under its roof. In February, 1790, he settied on a
small farm in Belpre, but in less than a year the Judian
irruption drove the settlers into garrison, and Captain De-
vol was called upon to plan, with the advice of other ex-
perienced officers, the necessary defenses. This resulted in
the erection of Farmer’s Castle in an incredibly short time.
In this garrison, which contained thirteen large block
houses, thirty or forty families were sheltered during the
war. The inhabitants had been obliged to grind their
corn on hand-mills, a most fatiguing and slow process; to
remedy this inconvenience, he constructed a floating mill,
which was anchored in the Ohio near the Castle. He also
invented a mill to grind and press out the juice of corn-
stalks to make molasses.
In 1792 he built a twelve-oared barge for General Put-
nam entirely of red cedar, which he procured a few
miles up the Little Kanawha, at the hazard of his life, in
the midst of the Indian war. This boat, for beauty of form
and workmanship, was said to excel any other ever seen on
the Ohio.
In 1797 he purchased land in Wiseman’s Bottom, on the
Muskingum, five miles above Marietta, where he made him-
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self a comfortable and pleasant home. Here, again, he
erected mills and engaged in ship-building. In 1801 he
built for a merchant in Marietta a ship of four hundred.
tons, all of the wood of the black walnut. The next year
he built two brigs, and in 1804 the schooner Nonpareil
was built. Always anxious to aid the destitute colonists,
Captain Devol purchased and put in operation the ma-
chinery for carding wool, and also erected works for dressing
and fulling cloth—both operations believed to have been
the first in this part of Ohio, if not in the State.
Amid all his enterprise and works of. usefulness Captain
Devol found time at the age of fifty years to study the
French language, and with no aid but Boyer’s Dictionary,
learned to read and translate with fluency any book in
that language. He entered upon thestudy of mathematics,
of which he was very fond; and his knowledge of geogra-
phy was unusually complete; he also made himself familiar
with astronomy, in which he took great delight. He was
remarkable for his conversational! powers, his kindness, and
hospitality. He died in 1824, aged 68 years, greatly
lamented. |
Allen Devol, from Rhode Island, was a nephew of Cap-
tain Jonathan Devol. He came with the first company to
Marietta in 1788, and in the following winter he drew a
donation lot, and joined the Watertord Association, wiio
began their settlement in April, 1789. He married Ruth
Jennings, and lived in the garrison until the close of the
war, when he removed to his land on the productive al-
luvial soil of Round Bottom, and settled on a farm near
to those of Samuel Cushing and Benjamin Shaw.
Gilbert Devol, Jr., one of the forty-eight, was the son of
Hon. Gilbert Devol, a Judge of the Supreme Court of
Rhode Island, who soon came out with his family to the
colony, and wasa person of much influence and prominence
in the community. Gilbert Devol, Jr., married Polly,
daughter of Major Asa Coburn. There were a number of
Devols who came from Rhode Island in the early years of
the settlement, and plauted families in Washington County,
to which they have given many respectable aud valuable
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citizens; among whom may be mentioned General H. F.
Devol, of the Union Army, who was promoted from Cap-
tain to Colonel and Brevet Brigadier-General “ for gallant
and meritorious services during the war.”
Major Anselm Tupper, son of General Benjamin Tupper,
was born at Easton, Massachusetts, October 11,1763. In
1779, at the age of sixteen, he was appointed Adjutant of
Colonel Ebenezer Sproat’s regiment, which was engaged
at Trenton, Princeton,and Monmouth. Heserved through
the war, and was a member of the Society of the Cincin-
nati. In 1786 he was with his father in the survey of the
seven ranges, and when the Ohio Company was formed he
became a share-holder, and was engaged by them as a
surveyor, and “ arrived at Marietta in the company of forty-
eight, April 7, 1788.” At the organization of the military
companies at Marietta, in 1789, under Colonel Sproat,
‘“Anselin Tupper was appointed Post Major, and had com-
mand of Campus Martius during the war.” That winter
he taught school in one of the block-houses of the fort.
He was secretary of the Union Lodge of Free Masons, be-
fore whom he delivered an address on St. John’s day, 1790.
Major Tupper was a brilliant man and a favorite in society.
He died, unmarried, at Marietta, December 25, 1808.
John Mathews was a nephew of General Rutus Putnam.
The was employed in the survey of the seven ranges in
1786. He was appointed a surveyor for the Ohio Company,
and joined the expedition that landed at Marietta, April 7,
1788, and was himself a share-holder in the Company.
While engaged surveying in the lower part of the pur-
chase, in Lawrence county, his camp was attacted by a
party of hostile Shawnees, early in the morning of Au-
gust 7, 1789. Ie had with him a guard of seven soldiers,
all of whom were killed, except the corporal. Mr:
Mathews’ assistant was shot dead at his side, and he es-
caped almost naked, and sueceeded, with three or four of
his party, who were unhurt, in reaching Colonel R. J.
Meigs, who was in a boat with a party surveying the Ohio
river, ‘This was the most serious disaster experienced by
any of the surveying parties. Besides the loss of life, all
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The Memory of the Founders of Ohio. 27
the clothing, guns, surveying instruments, and camp equip-
_age were lost. In 1792, Mr. Mathews was appointed su-
perintendent of affairs at Gallipolis. In 1796, he married
a daughter of Judge Dudley Woodbridge, of Marietta,
and settled in Muskingum County, and became a success-
ful farmer on a large scale. ‘“ He was one of the most use-
ful, active, and clear headed men Ohio ever claimed for a
citizen.”
Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs was.one of the surveyors
employed by the Ohio Company. He was a “ Colonel in the
Revolutionary army, born at Middletown, Connecticut,
December, 1740, died at the Cherokee Agency, Georgia,
January 28, 1823; distinguished for exploit at Sag Harbor,
and at the storming of Stony Point; served to the end of
the war. He was one of the first settlers at Marietta, Ohio,
in 1788. He was commissioner of clothing under General
Wayne, in 1795. In 1802, Jefferson appointed him agent
for Indian Affairs. The Indians called him the White
Path.” He was a member of the Society of the Cincin-
nati. On his removal to Georgia, “the inhabitants of Ma-
rietta parted with him very reluctantly, holding his person
and virtues in the highest estimation. His upright, manly
conduct, dignified manners, and kind heart, had enlisted
all in his favor. During a long life of activity and useful-
ness, nO man ever sustained a character more irreproachable
than Colonel Meigs. He was a pattern of excellence as a
patriot, a philanthropist, and a Christian.” His eldest son,
R. J. Meigs, Jr., remained a citizen of Marietta; he be-
came a supreme judge, United States Senator, Governor of
Ohio, and Postmaster General of. the United States.
Six more names are found on General Putnam’s list,
these are Benjamin Griswold, Hlizur Kirtland, William Mil-
ler, Daniel Bushnell, Israel Danton, and Josiah White, which
names probably belonged to men as good and true as the
others, but which we have been unable to trace, and, there-
fore, leave them to some more fortunate investigator. As
to the actual number of men in the first party, Joseph
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28 The Memory of the Founders of Ohio.
Buell, orderly sergeant in Captain Strong’s Company, at
Fort Harmar, writes: “April 7 (1788). General Putnam
arrived at this place with fifty men, to- begin a settlement
on the east side of the Muskingum.” John Mathews, a
surveyor, who had been with the party but a short time,
writes on the same date: “Our whole party consists of
forty-two men, surveyors and all.” But General Putnam,
who was the superintendent and responsible business man-
ager of the Company, states: “ The whole number of men,
including myself, who arrived at Marietta, April 7, 1788,
was forty-eight, among whom were four surveyors, viz:
Colonel Sproat; Colonel Meigs, Major Tupper, and Mr.
John Mathews. His list of names, forty-eight in all, is
found in Dr. Hildreth’s Pioneer History, and General Put-
nam’s statement has been accepted for an hundred years.
Each share in the Ohio Company entitled the owner to
eleven hundred and seventy-three acres of land, and a town
lot. Members of the party of forty-eight pioneers, held in
their own right, twenty-six shares, or about 30,000 acres of
land, while some other men in the Company represented
families, who, in’the aggregate, had 20,000 acres more.
They had, therefore, personal interests in the settlement,
and came to look after their own property. One-fourth of
these men held commissions in the Revolutionary Army,
and had distinguished themselves in the service, and were
now equally at home in civil life, as judges, or in other
public offices, others were skilled artisans, successful mer-
chauts, and intelligent farmers. Their descendants may
well be proud of their ancestry.
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